Whilst most visitors and holiday-makers arrive in our area
by car there are many residents who use and depend on public transport for
their day-to-day shopping, leisure, work and social & medical care. The
Society has always campaigned for better and more reliable transport links to
the area - local & further afield - and monitors the performance, plans and
promises of bus and rail operators.

Over the years we have participated in a variety of
traffic and parking surveys in Southwold and continue to be involved in the
ongoing debate on solutions to the problems the popularity of our location
poses for residents, visitors and businesses. The Society endorsed the project
for the Shuttle Bus serving Southwold and Reydon.
We also made a start-up donation. Timetables for the service can be found here.

We also support the Voluntary
Help Centre which
can organise volunteer drivers for hospital and other visits: www.southwoldvhc.com.

The Society encourages efforts to provide a 'longer
transport day' with earlier and later services and more reliable long-distance
links with logical connections -a bus service to Darsham Station and beyond,
for example, as well as the restoration of basic Sunday services. We
acknowledge that there is a commercial case to make and accept that there is a
"use it or lose it" factor - hence our continuing support for the East Suffolk Travellers
Association (ESTA)
at: www.eastsuffolktravel.org.ukand other groups.

The Society has campaigned for better service and supports
the Better Broadband for Suffolk initiative, including the programme to fill
"blind-spots" and the introduction of super-fast services, although
grants for businesses to upgrade do not currently cover the Southwold and
Reydon area.